The strangest thing how quickly it can all change.
I know this neighborhood of Shannondale, situated on the cusp of Jefferson County, already the easternmost in West Virginia, a once-mountain-cabin-weekend-getaway with a man-made lake turned bedroom-community for Washington, D.C., is an off the radar sort of place, a Hillbilly Villa, a rural pastimes island amid the farmland being cultivated into developments, as well as more than a bit late in the swirl of events and closures and shutdowns sweeping from one end of the globe to the next. But the world's finally arrived and this is the end of my family's first week in what is by all signals likely to become our new norm: staying at home.